SHILLONG: Flight Lieutenant Mohana Singh has became the first woman fighter pilot to fly by day on a Hawk advanced jet aircraft, as she landed after a grueling 4-aircraft combat sortie at Air Force station, Kalaikunda in West Bengal, which was the last-syllabus sortie of being fully operational on the Hawk Jets.
Her training involved flying both air-to-air combat and air-to-ground missions .Singh has undertaken many practice missions which involved firing of rockets, guns and dropping high-calibre bombs. She has also participated in various Air Force-level flying exercises, and has a total of over 500 hours of incident-free flying of which 380 hours are on the Hawk Mk 132 jet.
She, along with two other women Bhawana Kanth and Avani Chaturvadi, joined the fighter stream in Jun 2016. Flight Lieutenant Bhawana Kanth became fully operational by day on a MiG-21 Bison a week ago.
